Author: Wojtek Naruniec

  • Wapuu World and Wapuu Studio

    This month, I worked on shipping two fun things: an AI-powered Wapuu image generator, and a platformer game hidden inside WordPress Studio. The occasion was Radical Speed Month – a one-month internal experiment at Automattic where two-person teams get full autonomy to build and ship without the usual approval chain. I paired with Antonio Sejas,…

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  • Two years of WordPress Studio

    It will soon be two years since we started working on Studio. I’ve led the project technically and, for most of that time, on the product side as well.

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  • Time to switch to a block theme

    I enjoyed using the Ubergrid theme for many years, with its characteristic masonry home page layout. However, as the theme authors never upgraded it to a block theme, I thought it was time to change it.

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  • Deploy Studio sites to WordPress.com

    Recently, in WordPress.com, we launched a new local development environment tool called Studio. It allows creating local WordPress sites and sharing them with clients for review. See how you can use it with GitHub deployments to push your local changes to WordPress.com.

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  • Should I use book summarizing services?

    I was recently recommended a book-summarizing subscription service called Blinkist. They advertise to have summarized versions of over 6,500 non-fiction books, each available to listen to or to read.

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  • Top 10 Wolfram Alpha queries for a developer

    How I use Wolfram Alpha, a computational engine that can provide expert-level knowledge-based answers to questions, to help with everyday work.

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  • Staging Sites on WordPress.com

    WordPress.com users have been missing the staging sites feature for years. I’m excited that it changed this month!

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  • How to use Warden/Docker for WordPress development

    Check how to use Warden CLI tool to orchestrate Docker-based environments for local WordPress development.

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  • Starting and stopping brew services using BitBar plugin

    I was looking for a UI solution to easily start and stop homebrew services. Check out what I found – a handy app with ready to use plugins.

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